Microsoft launch first Microsoft Windows Phone 7 only technical preview, Mircosoft back into the smartphone arena.Microsoft is sending Windows Phone 7 LG and Samsung developers. Samaung run Windows 7 Phone on devices are for testing purposes only, detailed look at the current version of Windows Phone 7.

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A new beta of iPhone OS 2.2 was briefly posted last night as Apple released an updated iPhone developer NDA. However, from what we have heard from developers we know, the download wouldn't work was removed shortly after it was made available.

A recent Infoworld article tells us that application development for the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone is doing very brisk and profitable business for a lot of small business owners. But I think that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) will give them an even better opportunity to make money off fairly tiny development projects.